Cyclic amide bioisosterism: Strategic application to the design and synthesis of HCV NS5B polymerase inhibitors.
Yang, H., Hendricks, R.T., Arora, N., Nitzan, D., Yee, C., Lucas, M.C., Yang, Y., Fung, A., Rajyaguru, S., Harris, S.F., Leveque, V.J., Hang, J.Q., Pogam, S.L., Reuter, D., Tavares, G.A.(2010) Bioorg Med Chem Lett 20: 4614-4619
- PubMed: 20584604 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.06.008
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3MF5 - PubMed Abstract: 
Conformational modeling has been successfully applied to the design of cyclic bioisosteres used to replace a conformationally rigid amide bond in a series of thiophene carboxylate inhibitors of HCV NS5B polymerase. Select compounds were equipotent with the original amide series ...